Original title ქალის ტვირთი Set in Georgia
Russia Pages 400 pages Published 1936 Country Georgia | Language Georgian Media type Print (hardback) Subject 1905 Russian Revolution | |
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Genres Social novel, Historical drama Similar Arsena of Marabda, Kvachi Kvachantiradze, The Snake's Skin | ||
A Woman's Burden (Georgian: ქალის ტვირთი; Qalis tvirti) is the last novel by Georgian novelist Mikheil Javakhishvili. It was first published in 1936. Mikheil Javakhishvili was tortured and killed after publishing of this novel.
Contents
A woman s burden
About novel
This is a story of a revolutionary but bourgeoisie woman, Ketevan, whose lover, a Bolshevik underground worker Zurab, persuades her to marry a Tsarist gendarme officer, Avsharov, whom she is to kill. The novel remained censored until the late 1950s when he was rehabilitated and republished. The novel tells the story of a young Kate Akhatneli, the tragic fate of the nobility class background, ideologically in favor of the proletariat, however, in the end, there's no place to turn. Novel characters and historical figures are bred mentioned: Ilia Chavchavadze, Akaki Tsereteli, Anton Purtseladze, Niko Nikoladze, Young Stalin.
Plot
The main character is a young woman: Ms. Atakhneli. He escaped from the shelter in prison revolutionaries, Zurab Gurgenidze, who conveniently fled from prison. After the Revolution, the crowd becomes. In Akhatneli family lives people of different political views. For Illegal activity Kate's brother will be in prison. Kate married Avsharov(which is General of Gendarmerie,to help his brother, but actually he likes to Zurab Gurgenidze. Avsharov will understand about this and arrests him. Finally Gurgenidze will be exiled to Siberia and Kate(which is pregnant by Gurgenidze) will jump to Mkvari river.